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Collapsology at The Seashore of Endless Worlds

Nov 1, 2023 •

August 2023

Crude Futures Now Available

Hazmat suit sold separately

Aug 21, 2023 •

July 2023

Collapsology made a magazine and a card game

Launches this Thursday and Friday in Berlin

Jul 25, 2023

August 2022

Prefigurative Glossary

Introduction to 'Thought Forms' series

Aug 17, 2022 •

July 2022

From an ash-filled mouth

Is climate change best expressed as tragedy? Farce? Horror? Dystopia? The secondary literature on ‘cli-fi’ (climate fiction) has an optometrist’s stack…

Jul 31, 2022 •

The Stakes of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is going through a major upheaval. You have no doubt seen the scenes of people diving joyously into the pool of the (now, finally, former…

Jul 22, 2022

Attention Deficit Hyperobject Disorder

On Complexity and Polycrisis

Jul 19, 2022 •

On Staying Woke in Polycrisis Futurism

..and Avoiding the Basic Lib PMC Siren Song of Rupert Read

Jul 6, 2022 •

The decisive moment

Rosa Luxemburg and the threshold events of history

Jul 1, 2022 •

June 2022

On the Crudeness of Futures

The infrastructural, political, cultural systems we live in are coming apart in a way that may well be conclusive. In short, the vast network of things…

Jun 23, 2022 •

Existential Risk and The Method of Collapsology

Apologies for the silence. The speak-first, elaborate later style of newsletters has taken some getting used to. From now on, Collapsology will appear…

Jun 23, 2022 •

March 2022

Notes on Russia/Ukraine #1

What signs of collapse are lurking in the fog of this war?

Mar 2, 2022 •

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